India will create its own OS to rival Google and Apple (news.youexec.com)

India has tried same for desktop and failed miserably. I'm sure most of us haven't even heard about it.

I'm more hopeful about electronics manufacturing

Making Linux better support mobile would be a better use of resources.

Don’t they practically already have KaiOS? Seems like investing in that would be the right path for an Indian mobile OS

Great, another UC Browser to support and test for.